College Basketball: Who's No. 2?

"Let's face it," one
Eastern coach sighed last week. "There are two classes in college
basketball this season: best and second best. U.C.L.A. is in a class
all by itself. All the rest of us are fighting to be No. 2."

Even so, it is quite a fight. At the start of last week, no fewer than
13 teams besides U.C.L.A. were unbeaten. By week's end the number was
down to sevenand some of the survivors were on the critical list. No.
2-ranked Louisville had all it could do to squeeze past Syracuse,...